MPs to vote on hybrid embryo laws

Monday, 19 May 2008

MPs are voting later on whether to allow scientists to continue to carry out controversial stem cell research using hybrid human-animal embryos.

Gordon Brown has urged MPs to back the work, saying it is a "moral endeavour" that could save thousands of lives.

Scientists say it could lead to disease treatments, but critics argue that mixing human and animal tissue tampers with nature and is immoral. the rest

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